Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.